All posts tagged "Megan Carpentier"

Most political news sites grow audience and pageviews during presidential election years. But, if you look carefully at our numbers -- and especially if you examine our month-to-month growth since 2010 -- you'll see that Raw Story is on a consistent upward trajectory unmatched by any of our competitors. The chart below demonstrates that tremendous growth by comparing our 2011 traffic (in orange) to our 2012 traffic (in blue).

Megan Carpentier, the executive editor of Raw Story, said on The Young Turks Wednesday that claiming Democrats are members of the Communist Party was not particularly outrageous in today's political climate, considering how often unsubstantiated smears get thrown around.

In the wake of the Iowa GOP caucus, Raw Story executive editor Megan Carpentier and Reason editor-in-chief Matt Welch sat down with The Real News Network's senior editor Paul Jay to discuss Tuesday's events and, in particular, the candidacy of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Welch, a self-identified libertarian, and Carpentier had a heated debate about why progressives and even some libertarians hesitate to support the candidacy of Paul despite his positions on civil liberties and the war in Afghanistan and how former governor Gary Johnson (R-NM) is similar to Paul on many of the issues identified as important by the latter's supporters with none of Paul's racist baggage, but roundly ignored by Republicans, libertarians and progressives alike.

On Thursday, Ron Reagan was broadcasting his show from Netroots Nation and Megan Carpentier, one of the behind-the-scenes people at Air America came up to me during an earlier panel and asked if I do a segment with Ron Reagan about LGBT issues later in the day. Of course I was surprised that I was a first pick for this, considering the many great peeps in attendance. Anyway, I said sure, and showed up early since it was hard to find the radio row.